U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for May 8: Doctors in the House
WASHINGTON, May 8, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
DOCTORS IN THE HOUSE
Profile America — Monday, May 8th. What is perhaps the nation's foremost professional organization, the American Medical Association, was founded this month in 1847 in Philadelphia. Two hundred-fifty delegates from 28 states attended the founding meeting, which adopted the first code of medical ethics and established the first nationwide standards for preliminary medical education and the degree of MD. At the time, there were some 50,000 medical doctors in the U.S. Today, there are more than 700,000. Physicians and surgeons have median annual earnings of more than $187,000. That's five times the national workforce individual median of about $36,000, and more than triple the $56,000 annual mean earnings of health care practitioners and technicians in general. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov.
Sources: Kane's Famous First Facts, 5036
AMA Founding/accessed 3/3/2017:
www.ama-assn.org/ama-history
Physicians in 19th Century: Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970, p. 76 Number of physicians and earnings/accessed 3/3/2017:
www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/physicians-and-surgeons.htm
Median earnings/health care practitioners and techs/accessed 3/3/2017: www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#31-0000
National median earnings:
https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/15_5YR/S2001
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu).
SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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